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Joined: 21 Oct 2011 Posts: 37 Location: Morehead, Kentucky

Hello,

I'm a new member of the 16ga community, I was recently given a 16ga sxs that has been in my family for years, I know I am the 4th generation of my family who this gun has been passed down to.

I'm looking for conformation of the information I have found.

Left side:

Stevens Model 311
Savage Arms Corporation
Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts

Right side:

311a

Bottom:

(7F)

I have not located a serial number, my understanding is that, prior to 1968 Stevens did not put serial number on their guns. I read that these guns can be dated by the series which I took to be the 7F, Starting with series A in 1949.

So am I correct in thinking this guy was manufactured in 1954??

Thanks in advance for your help!

Joined: 12 Sep 2010 Posts: 1973 Location: Maine

Welcome aboard. I think you'll like it here.

As to your gun, it will outlive us all. I don't know about the serial number or year it was made, but there are people here who do.

Member Joined: 16 Dec 2007 Posts: 592 Location: Minnesota

I can't provide any insight into the gun either but wanted to welcome you to the forum.

Member Joined: 01 Jun 2006 Posts: 182 Location: Minnesota

Can't help with your specific info either but I own 2 311s and they are super nice guns that you will be able to pass down to your family and they will too. Welcome aboard. Great source of info here.

Joined: 21 Oct 2011 Posts: 37 Location: Morehead, Kentucky

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome!!

Hope this will help

http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=47065

Welcome! Those guns are tanks.

Joined: 28 Feb 2011 Posts: 385 Location: northeast

..welcome aboard..I'm sure you'll find this site very friendly as well as informative. My father had a 311 in 20 ga. growing up. Unfortunately , it was stolen some years back. I found a Savage Fox B model in 16ga a few months ago. Its pretty much the same gun. I think you will find the 16 ga. "bug" is hard to shake. It's hard to have just one and you cant stop. I'm up to 6 now and always on the lookout for more...Enjoy that gun , it'll last forever.

Joined: 21 Oct 2011 Posts: 37 Location: Morehead, Kentucky

Thanks for the warm welcome!!

Ive had the shot gun on the rack for a few weeks to re-fill the freezer with deer meat. But Ill have it back in my hands next week and plan on using it for the 2nd week of fall turkey in Dec!

Joined: 21 Oct 2011 Posts: 37 Location: Morehead, Kentucky

Joined: 21 Oct 2011 Posts: 37 Location: Morehead, Kentucky

Speaking of eastern Kentucky grouse...... I connected with my fist one today with the 16ga!!

Sweet! A beautiful bird Outdoorfan. Congrats! Man I sure do miss the EKy grouse hunting since moving down to Mississippi. Our quail population has reached a real nadir, which makes finding birds really difficult without traveling long distances to hunt.

I may have to go back to Ky and see if I can scare up any.

KB

Joined: 21 Oct 2011 Posts: 37 Location: Morehead, Kentucky

I don't really consider myself a bird hunter or a wing shooter because all most all of my hunting experience is either deer, turkey or squirrels... This grouse today caught me by surprise and flushed less than 15 feet in front of me, and never got more than a foot or two off the ground... Before I could get my gun up to my shoulder he was out of sight.

I followed off the trail in about the same direction he had left and traveled about 50-60 yards, keeping where I assumed he had stopped to my right, I turned wide and headed back toward the trail again assuming he was to my right, as I started back up the hill he flushed in front of my heading back up the hill toward the trail, my shot gun must have known what he was doing because I didn't, I never saw the barrel or the bead the gun just hit my shoulder and I hit the trigger but the shot was true : ))

I could see how this could be very addicting!!